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Industry calls for urgent ICT capacity building in Europe - October 2006

eSkills group urges European governments to work with industry to speed up efforts to prepare the EU workforce and citizens for the knowledge-based economy

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IT Fitness Initiative
Launched in November 2006 by Bill Gates, the IT Fitness initiative in Germany aims to reach 4 million people nationally by 2010. They will get access to self-testing and self-learning tools and receive a valuable IT fitness description for their job applications.

Founding members of the IT Fitness partner network include Randstad, Microsoft, State Street and Cisco. The German Association of the IT Industry (BITKOM), and the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts (ZDH) have already joined the partnership and will support the initiative alongside two new members. Deutsche Bahn AG and the German Federal Employment Agency, officially introduced on 27th March in Berlin.

IT Fitness Website

Pictures from the launch event

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